Ankylose This! Living with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

arthritis drugs

The earlier post about anakinra got me wondering whether I had read about it anywhere.

Turns out Kineret® (anakinra) is some kind of interleukin-1 thing.

The one I was thinking about (I think) is Arcoxia, a COX-2 inhibitor from Merck.
I don't know how anyone keeps these things straight. We're all ending up talking language out of science fiction in order that everything have a unique brand name.

Here's an article from arthritis.about.com on The Newest Arthritis Medications.

-- Richard

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